Half Day Course - Thai Cottage home Cookery School

Thai Cottage Home Cookery School is a family-run school in the Chang Phueak area, just north of the old city, teaching since 2000. The half-day course is a relaxed three to four hours in an open-air kitchen where you choose four dishes and cook every one of them yourself. It suits couples, families and solo travellers who want a small class and a personal teacher.

The class begins with a guided walk through a local market, where your instructor explains the herbs, chillies and pastes that make Thai food taste the way it does. Back at the school you visit the organic herb garden, then take your own wok and cooking station. You make curry paste from scratch, cook sticky rice and turn it into mango sticky rice, and learn to brew butterfly pea flower tea. Then you sit down and eat, or take leftovers with you.

Every dish can be made vegetarian or vegan, and the school works around gluten-free diets and allergies if you tell them in advance. Spice level is up to you. Classes are kept small, and free pickup and drop-off is included around the old city. A step-by-step digital recipe book and an online photo album follow after the class.